Raellyn only wanted to feel a little better. She had hoped for peace, just a fragment of calmness to patch the hole inside her chest. But instead, the reunion greeted her with a face from the past. The one face she would rather never see again. The person she’d been trying to forget.
Gilbert.
Raellyn never liked dwelling in the past. Not because she was cold-hearted. She is far from it. It was quite the opposite. She felt too deeply. She simply believed in memories. Especially the ones irrelevant to the present deserved to stay buried, hidden behind years and reasons. She didn’t believe in reopening wounds that had already been neatly stitched.
She thought Gilbert understood this. That he would keep their past where it belonged in the past.
Apparently, she was wrong.
The day dragged o
